Cowboy Cody Colton was once Emma Jacobs' unrequited high school crush but then she got a scholarship to NYU and bid goodbye to small town Texas and hello to big city lights. Now a children's librarian, Emma is an urbanite through and through and she would rather have a root canal than camp in a tent, but when she finds herself hoodwinked into a Colorado whitewater rafting trip, she figures at least she's a shoo-in to win the and "summer-of-no-sex and " celibacy wager she's made with her three best friends. That is until she learns the lanky cowboy serving as their wilderness guide is none other than Cody Colton and he's suddenly looking at Emma in a whole new light...